Emily Gabriella Sommer, the Washington, D.C., activist who previously spat on former U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, may face jail time for violating the terms of her release by continuing to harass him, prosecutors said Thursday.
According to prosecutors, Sommer posted threats directed at Martin on X on Tuesday, using racial slurs and suggesting that D.C. jurors would refuse to convict her through jury nullification.
Sommer was allowed to post on social media due to the court’s decision to release her without bail on May 22—the same day she was arrested for spitting on Ed Martin during a televised interview, an incident that was caught on camera.
The government had not requested pretrial detention, but the conditions of her release prohibited “all contact, directly or indirectly, with any person who is or may be a victim or witness in the investigation or prosecution, including… Ed Martin.”
Prosecutors found that Sommer, posting from her X handle with the display name “lefttits,” this week tagged Martin and wrote, “My property has essentially been seized and I do not have the basic necessities nor money to provide for myself nor my dog. F*** you, Ed… but since you’ve once again made me hostage in this city, I’ll make sure it eats you alive and spits you back out, like the felony ‘assault’ you’ve alleged, wit your punk-ass-b****-cuckold-neo-beo-no-brained-Neaderthal (no shade to actual non-Sapiens) cracka ass, jive-turkey redneck from the Midwest.”
“You mad, bro? You got fired, and then caught a loogie to the shoulder. I don’t think that makes you any sort of ‘active’ official. You’re in the wrong court… Come at me dawg,” she added.
Sommer also targeted Jeanine Pirro, who was appointed by President Donald Trump as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia after it became evident that the Senate would not confirm Ed Martin.
“Lmaooooo @JudgeJeanine is the bish that took your job. That’s gotta hurt. And she’s got so much trash talk comin her way too, don’t worry bish, you’ll get it too,” she wrote, according to court papers.
Sommer was charged with “assaulting, resisting, or impeding a government official” and arrested on May 22. “In the course of the arrest, the Defendant kicked and spit on one Deputy United States Marshal and kicked another Deputy United States Marshal,” prosecutors said in court papers.
Pirro on Thursday asked Judge Matthew Sharbaugh to revoke the conditions of Sommer’s release, saying “there is clear and convincing evidence that the Defendant violated a condition of release.”
She wrote that tagging Martin “would likely cause the post to appear in the Notifications tab of the victim’s X account. The posts, therefore, violated the Court’s order to ‘avoid all contact, directly or indirectly’ with the victim.”
“The Defendant’s conduct demonstrates that the Defendant is unlikely to abide by any condition or combination of conditions of release. In particular, the charged assault and subsequent assaults on law enforcement officers demonstrate the Defendant’s unwillingness to abide by the law and comply with lawful authorities. Likewise, the Defendant’s recent X posts demonstrate a disregard for the conditions of release set by this Court, which the Defendant agreed to follow less than two weeks ago,” she wrote.